Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Passiflora suberosa

Flower, young fruit, and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Cape Hillsborough National Park, N of Mackay, QLD

Flowering stem. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Cape Hillsborough National Park, N of Mackay, QLD

Fruit and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, Australian Tropical Rainforest key.

Common name

Corky Passionfruit, Cork Passionflower, Small Passionfruit, Corky Passionvine, Corky Passion Flower

Family

Passifloraceae

Where found

Forest, urban bushland, woodland, disturbed sites, gardens, and near streams. Mainly in the Sydney area.

Notes

Introduced slender vine with twining stems to about 6 m long. Young stems round or sometimes angular, sparsely or densely hairy, becoming hairless. Older stems becoming corky at the base. Leaves alternating up the stems, 3–11 cm long, 30-120 mm wide, usually deeply 3-lobed with pointed lobes, sometimes unlobed, surfaces sparsely to densely hairy. Leaf stalks with 2 glands near the middle or near the leaf. Stipules narrow, 4–8 mm long. Flowers with 0 petals and 5 pale greenish to pale greenish yellow sepals, the coloured ring at the base of the sepals greenish yellow and purplish, centre whitish. Flowers 8–30 mm in diameter, single or in pairs. Fruit dark purple, bluish-black, or black, with a waxy bloom, more or less round, 0.6-1.5 cm diameter.

General Biosecurity Duty all NSW.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Passiflora~suberosa (accessed 30 January, 2021)